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"It will be very difficult not to have Mother Earth next to you," warns former astronaut Chris Hadfield.
PIC: Members of the AMADEE-18 Mars simulation mission wear space suits during scientific experiments during an analogue field simulation in the Dhofar desert in Oman in February this year. (AFP)
TRAVEL IN SPACE
Astronauts traveling in space during their long journey to Mars will not have the usual support of mission control on Earth and will have to consider themselves as Martians to survive, jokingly says the most famous astronaut Canadian.
According to current forecasts, humans will reach Mars – up to 400 million kilometers (250 million kilometers) from Earth – over the next few decades.
But the long distance means that communications with the control of the mission would be delayed by 22 minutes.
As a result, astronauts will have to be self-sufficient on the trip, which makes a return trip of only two and a half years.
This illustration shows NASA's interior exploration using seismic investigations, geodesy and heat transport (InSight) during NASA's next Mars mission scheduled for 5 May 2018, first mission of the study of the heart of Mars. (AFP / NASA)
Mars is 400 million kilometers (250 million miles) from Earth
"If I were commander of the crew, as soon as the Earth started to disappear in the rearview mirror, I would assemble the team and say," We are no longer Terrans, we are now Martians " said former astronaut Chris Hadfield.
"It's who we are, we need to redefine our relationship with the planet that gave us birth," he told them.
"It's going to be very difficult not to have Mother Earth next to you and it will be very important for this team to define who they are the most distant explorers of human history."
Hadfield, whose thousands watched David Bowie's "Space Oddity" aboard the International Space Station in 2013, participated with fellow astronauts in a fireside chat with university students. d & # 39; Ottawa.
Chris Hadfield plays guitar at the dome of the International Space Station in December 2012. (AFP / NASA)
Robert Thirsk – who holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space – said that new recruits from the Canadian Space Agency Joshua Kutryk and Jenni Sidey-Gibbons "will go to a deep space, return to the moon , to an asteroid, and in 20 years we will be on the surface of Mars exploration. "
In the short term, "the idea of living on the moon … becomes very, very real," Kutryk said.
The Canadian astronaut was present during the last tests of the Orion interplanetary probe, in the southwestern United States, because he had declared that he would "bring humans back to the moon in the next few years."
In the coming months, Canada will launch three satellites, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will visit the ISS and NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to study an asteroid will carry Canadian sensors.
Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto (right), from Arizona State University, shows a rock with round concretions. Hugh Gregory, a space flight historian, looks at the Mars Desert research station in mid-2005, several miles northwest of Hanksville. . The concretions were also found on rocks on Mars at the landing sites of Opportunity and Spirit and could be evidence that water and life existed on Mars. (AFP / Getty Images)
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